Using a CGE model, this study analyses the impact of trade liberalization on poverty at the household level taking Ethiopia as a case. Two scenarios (complete tariff cut and uniform tariff scheme) suggest that further liberalization of trade has little short-run effect on the overall economy....

Books reviewed include: No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sara Berry; Hungry Dreams: The Failure of Food Policy in Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1990 by Brizio N. Biondi-Morra; Ghana Under Structural Adjustment: The Impact on Agriculture and...